Faraday Enclosures (FE)

Our Faraday Enclosures (FE) are conducting chambers with transparent walls and internal microwave absorbers. They block and absorb radio waves in the 902-915 MHz frequency band so as to permit our micropower telemetry system to operate in laboratory spaces where mobile phone interference would otherwise swamp our telemetry signals. We use the term "Faraday enclosure" in place of "Faraday cage" for two reasons. First, we want to distinguish between our metal constructions and the animal cages. Second, our enclosures are not simply conducting cages, they are cages with internal absorbers.

The FE3B is a stackable, bench-top enclosure large enough for two rat cages. The FE3B-ACC2 is the same enclosure with two of Animal Cage Cameras (ACC) built into the ceiling. The FE3BS is an FE3B with a shelf, so that it can house four rat cages or six mouse cages. The FE5B is a free-standing steel mesh enclosure that will house an entire shelving unit or ventilated cage rack. All these enclosures have coaxial and Ethernet feedthroughs that allow us to install Loop Antennas (A3015), Animal Cage Cameras (ACCs), and Animal Location Trackers (ALTs) without introducing microwave interference.